Since the late Seventies, the Sun has been Britain’s largest-selling daily newspaper. After its sales overtook those of the once-dominant Daily Mirror, they went on rising until the mid-Eighties to reach a peak of 4.2 million.

Much chatter about Bell Pottinger chief executive James Henderson’s decision to take out a four-page press advert to celebrate the public relations firm’s first anniversary since it went private in a management buyout.

The Commons Culture Media and Sport Committe has asked Rupert Murdoch to appear before it again to discuss his comments on a recording which shows him apparently venting his anger about police investigations into phone-hacking and payments to officials.